TECHNICAL REGULATIONS - SHOOTING
1. TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
The technical committee will be composed of the Technical Director of DEAFLYMPICS and four members appointed by the Organising Committee:
TBA DEAFLYMPICS Technical Director
Brian Bernal Sport Liaison Officer
John Gillman Competition Manager
Dennis Peacock Target Rifle Victoria
Peter Davis Victorian Amateur Pistol Association
2. PROTEST COMMITTEE
TBA Deaflympics Technical Director
John Gillman Competition Manager
Dennis Peacock Target Rifle Victoria
Peter Davis Victorian Amateur Pistol Association
Brian Bernal Deaf Representative
3. COMPETITION VENUE
The shooting competitions will take place at the Melbourne International Shooting Club, Port Melbourne, Melbourne.
4. TRAINING VENUE
The training venue is the same as the competition site.
5. EQUIPMENT
The installations will include the following:
* One 50 m shooting range (rifle and pistol), 40 ranges
* One 25 m pistol range, 40 ranges
* One 10 m air gun range, 28 ranges
6. EVENTS
The 20th Deaflympic Games Shooting competition will comprise of the following events:
* 50 m Free Rifle prone
* 50 m Free Rifle three positions
* 10 m Air Rifle
* 50 m Free Pistol
* 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol
* 10 m Air Pistol
All events are open to both men and women. There will be no team classification.
7. SCHEDULE
Refer to competition schedule included on the website
www.2005deaflympics.com.
8. REGULATIONS
8.1. Rules: The Shooting competitions of the 20th Deaflympic Games will be conducted in accordance with the ISSF General Regulations and Eligibility Rules and Regulations for rifle and pistol in effect from 1 January 2004. In case of disagreement in the interpretation of the Rules, the English text shall prevail. All applicable rules of DEAFLYMPICS, including those governing eligibility and participation shall be complied with. In the event of conflict in the Rules, the order of precedence shall be as follows:
8.1.1. Cases of a general nature will be resolved in accordance with DEAFLYMPICS Statutes.
8.1.2. Technical questions shall be resolved in accordance with the ISSF Rules and Regulations.
8.1.3. ISSF Regulations for appropriate shooting discipline.
8.2. Participation:
8.2.1. Only athletes who comply with the DEAFLYMPICS Statutes and ISSF Rules are entitled to take part in the Deaflympic Games Shooting competitions.
8.2.2. Each National Association is entitled to enter a maximum of two competitors per event.
8.3. Entries:
8.3.1. Preliminary registrations with an indication of the probable number of athletes in each sport and event should have been submitted to the DEAFLYMPICS Secretariat no later than 1 December 2003.
8.3.2. The final registrations with the names of each athlete indicating sport and event entered must be submitted to the DEAFLYMPICS Secretariat no later than 1 December 2004. Such submissions may be made by telefax if followed by the official registration form.
8.3.3. No changes or additional entries will be accepted after this time.
8.3.4. A fine of USD $20 is levied on each non-starting athlete with the exception of those presenting a doctor's declaration that he/she should not be allowed to start.
8.4. Medical Control: Refer to DEAFLYMPICS' General Rules for All Sports, Article 1.4 - Control and Sanctions.
8.5. Allocation of Targets: The assigned shooting stations and times for each competitor in each competition will be determined by drawing of lots. Each event draw will take place two days prior to the competition. The draw will be done by the Classification office in accordance with ISSF rules, under the supervision of the jury for that event.
9. COMPETITION RULES AND REGULATIONS
9.1. Elimination, qualification and Finals: The Deaflympic Games shooting competitions will be organized with qualification and final rounds. If the number of shooters exceeds the usable capacity of the range, elimination must be conducted following the ISSF Special Technical Rules for the event in question.
The eight (8) highest scoring athletes in the qualification rounds will advance to the final rounds.
9.1.1. Qualification rounds: Shots in the qualification rounds will be scored on the basis of the standard 10,9,8, etc. point system.
9.2.2. Final rounds: To score final round shots, each whole number scoring ring is further subdivided into tenths. Thus, the highest value counts as 10.9 points, the lowest value 10 counts as 10.0 points. The highest value 9 counts as 9.9 points, etc.
9.2. 50 m Free Rifle, 60 shots prone: The competition will be fired in the prone position at a distance of 50 meters, using international targets where one shot shall be fired at each target.
There will be a time limit of 1 hour and 15 minutes for all sighting and record shots. Each shooter is entitled to unlimited sighting shots, which must be fired before the start of the competition.
9.3. 50 m Free rifle, three positions, 3 x 40 shots: The small-bore rifle competition (three positions) will be fired at a distance of 50 meters, using the international targets. One shot shall be fired at each target from all positions. Time limits for all sightings and record shots are:
* Prone : 45 minutes
* Standing: 1 hour and 15 minutes
* Kneeling: 1 hour
* The minimum changeover time between positions is 15 minutes.
* All shooters must complete the prone stage before starting the standing stage, and all shooters must complete the standing stage before starting the kneeling stage.
* Sighting shots (unlimited in number) must be fired only before the beginning of each match or position. Once the first record shot has been fired, no further sighting shots are allowed unless permitted by the Jury.
9.4. 10 m Air Rifle and 10 m Air Pistol: The Air Rifle and Air Pistol competitions will be fired at a distance of 10 meters using international targets where one shot shall be fired at each target for both the rifle event the pistol event. Time limit is 1 hour 45 minutes for each competition. All firing is done from the standing position.
9.5. Free pistol: The Free Pistol competition will be fired in six series of 10 shots from a distance of 50 m using international targets with 5 shots on each target. The total time limit, including sighting shots, is 2 hours. An unlimited number of sighting shots shall be fired only before beginning of competition shots.
9.6. 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol: The ISSF target for the Rapid Fire Pistol, which is divided into 5 scoring zones, will be used. Targets will be set up in groups of five, 0.75m apart centre to centre, at a distance of 25 m.
The competition shall consist of 60 shots divided into two stages of 30 shots each. Each stage includes six (6) series of five (5) shots each, two in 8 seconds, two in 6 seconds and two in 4 seconds. Before the beginning of each stage, the shooter may fire one sighting series of five shots in either 8, 6 or 4 seconds.
9.7. Judges: The juries selected by the Organising Committee will supervise the running of the shooting competitions.
9.8. Protests:
9.6.1. Procedure for lodging a protest: All sport related protests will be resolved in accordance to ISSF Rules & Regulations and will be managed by the Sporting Protest Committee. Any official protest must be submitted in writing on the Official DEAFLYMPICS Protest Form, and given to the DEAFLYMPICS Technical Director accompanied by $USD50.
The DEAFLYMPICS Technical Director will decide whether the protest is sporting related or eligibility related. The Sporting Protest Committee will review all sport related protests, and the Deaflympics Executive Committee will review all eligibility protests. The deposit of $USD50 will be returned to the appellant only if the protest is considered valid.
9.6.2 Procedures for reviewing a protest: The sporting protest committee will meet in a meeting room at Melbourne International Shooting Club at a time decided upon by the chairperson of the committee.
* The DEAFLYMPICS Technical Director will be the chairperson of the committee.
* The Sports Liaison Officer (SLO) will be responsible to book the meeting room and interpreters.
* The Sports Liaison Officer (SLO) will contact all committee members to inform them of the meeting time and location.
* The DEAFLYMPICS Technical Director will be responsible for liaising with the State Sports Association Competition Manager.
The Sports Liaison Officer (SLO) will be responsible for informing Games Headquarters GHQ and the DEAFLYMPICS Technical Director will be responsible for informing Deaflympics Executive about the protest and also the outcome of the protest.
9.9. Hearing Aids: The use of hearing aids is strictly forbidden during the time of competition.
10. TECHNICAL MEETING
The Shooting Technical Meeting will be held at 2.00pm on 3 January 2005. Each participating team may be represented by two officials, of whom at least one must be deaf and, if necessary, one interpreter.